Loading apparatus.



J. M. CARAWAY.

LOADING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 26, 1909.

959,593. Patented Mar.1,1910.

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J. M. CARAWAY. LOADING lAPPABATI'IS. APPLIUATION FILED rms. ze, 190s.

950,593. i Patented 111111.11910.

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LOADING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 26, 1909.

'Patented Mar. 1, 1910.

Serial No. 480,120.

To all 'who/m it may concer/n:

Be it known that l, .laars M. Cimiuvar, a citizen of the United States, residing at Longmont, in the county of Boulder and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Loading Apparatus, of which the it'ollowing is a specification.

This invention has relation to loading apparatus and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement ot' its parts as hereinatter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus especially adapted to be used :tor transferring beets from wagons to railway ears, but it is to be understood that the same apparatus may also be used to advan tage for handling other commodities in a similar manner.

TVith the above object in view the apparatus consists of a runway having an elevated portion, upon which a loaded wagon may pass, and from which it may deposit its contents through an opening into a receiving hopper located under the elevated portion of the said runway. Extending from beneath the elevated portion of the said runway is an inclined track, having near its upper portion a scale platform which is operatively connected with a weighing mechanism. A cylinder or rotating body is mounted for movement along the said track and is provided with foraminous sides and a hinged section. Gudgeons are provided at the ends of the said member, and elevating means are provided at the opposite ends oit the said track, which may be raised to en gage the gudgeons, whereby the member may be lifted from the track and turned into suitable position to receive the commodity at the runway end of the track, or to dump the same at the delivery end of the track into a chute provided thereat.

In the accompanying drawings-Trigue 1 is a plan view of the apparatus. Fig. 9 is a side elevation ot' the wagon runway. Fig. 3 is aside elevation ot the track, showing the runway in section. Fig. 4t is a transverse sectional view of the track, showing the rotating member located thereon. F is a side elevation of the rotating member. Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view ot the rotating member. Fig. 7 is a detailed side elevation of an end portion of the said rotating member.

The wagon runway 1 consists of the inclined end sections 2 and the intermediate elevated section 3. Hinged doors l are provided in the floor of the elevated section 3, or other suitable closures may be provided for an opening provided in the said elevated section 3. A hopper is fixed to the under side o1 the elevated section 3, below the opening closed by the doors 4;, and is provided with a slidable gate (i, which is adapted to be raised and lowered by an operating lever 7.

An inclined track 8 has its lower end located under the delivery end of the hopper 5, and is mounted upon trestle works 9, and provided at its upper elevated end with a chute 10. The said chute lO is preferably hingedly attached to the upper elevated end of the said track 8. Levers 11 are fulcrumed at the lower end of the track S and are provided upon their upper edges with. the notches or shoulders 12. Levers 13 are -t'ulcrumed at theupper end o't` the said track 8, and are provided at their upper edges with the shoulders or notches 111. Pins 15 enter the sides o'tl the track 8 and are adapted to retain the free ends of the levers l1 against movement, while pins 1G are similarly located and are adapted to retain the tree ends of the levers 13 against vertical movement. Guides 17 are provided Yfor the levers 11, and guides 1S are provided lor the levers 13.

A scale 1f) is located in the vicinity of the upper end of the track 8, and a scale platform 20 is located between the side members ot the said track and is operatively connected with the said scale 19 in the usual manner. A platform 2l is located adjacent the said scale 1S) and it is from the platform that the regist 'ations of the scale may be viewed by an operator, as also the operation of the apparatus.

A rotating member 22 is provided at its ends with the circular disks 93, which are adapted to travel upon the upper edges of the side members of the track 8. The said member Q2 is also provided at its end portions and adjacent the said disks 9.3 with the disks Q11, which are slightly larger in diameter than the disks 23, and which bear against the inner sides of the members of the track S, but which are adapted to rest upon the scale plattform Q0 when the member 22 is over the same, whereby the weight of the said member 22 and its contents will be borne by the said scale platform. The said member 22 is provided with the foraminous sides 25, and also with a hinged section 26. The

member 22 is further provided at its ends with the concentrically placed gudgeons 27, which project beyond the outer sides of the members of the track 8 and are located above the planes occupied by the levers ll and 13. Sleeves 28 are journaled upon the gudgeons 27 and cables 29 are connected with the said sleeves and pass around rollers 30, provided at the upper end of the track 8, and from thence they pass around a roller 3l located under the track 8 at an intermediate point thereof, and are connected with a swingletree 32, to which a draft animal may be attached, it being understood that in lieu of the said swingle-tree 32, other means for drawing the cables 29 may be provided.

As above stated, the apparatus as described is especially designed to be used for loading material from a wagon upon the body of a railroad car, and, of course when so employed it is used adjacent a track, which is illustrated in Figs. l and 3 of the drawings. It is to be understood however that the apparatus may also be used to advantage for loading material from one wagon to another, or from a wagon to any suitable receptacle.

In operation the apparatus is manipulated as follows A wagon containing the material, such, for instance, as beets, is driven upon the runway l, up one of the in# clines 2, and upon the elevated portion 3. The contents of the wagon are then dumped (the doors 4; having previously been opened) into the hopper 5. Presuming that the member 22 is at the lower end of the track 8, an operator raises the levers 1l until their upper edges at the notches or shoulder l2 come in contact with the gudgeons 27 at the ends of the said member. By continuing the up ward movement of the levers ll the member 22 is lifted until the peripheries of the disks 23 are above the upper surfaces of the side members of the track S. The said member 22 is then free to be rotated upon its gudgeon 17 and this is done until the hinged section 26 of the member 22 is brought under the delivery end of the hopper 5. The gate 6 of the said hopper is then opened by swinging the lever 7, and the contents of the hopper fall from the same into the member 22. The hinged section 26 of the said member 22 is then closed and secured in any suitable manner, and, by applying draft to the ends of the cables 29, as above indicated, the said cables are moved longitudinally, whereby the member 22 is drawn toward the upper end of the track 8. When the gudgeons 27 pass beyond the upper edges of the levers ll, the peripheries of the disks 23, and the member 22 are drawn up along the track S, and as the same rotates, dirt and grit which might adhere to the commodity within the member 22 is loosened from the same and is sifted through the foraminous sides of the said member 22Y Then the member 22 arrives at the scale platform 20 the disks 24 engage the end portions of thc upper side of the said platform 20, and the said member 22 slightly elevated with relation to the side men'ibcrs of the track 8. rIhus t-he weight ofthe member 22 and its contents is transferred from the track 8 to the scale platform 20. Thus means is provided for weighing the contents of the said member After the weight thereof has been noted the cables 29 are operated further as above indicated whereby the member is drawn along the track 8 above the scale platform 20. When the said member arrives su'tliciently near the upper end of the track 3 an 'operator raises the lever 13, whereby the shouldered portions ll thereof are brought under the gudgeons 2? of the said member 22, and the member 22 is again lifted and may be rotated so that its hinged section 26 is posi tioned under the body of the said member, and, when in such position, the said section 26 is opened, whereby the contents of the member 22 may fall from the same into the chute l0, and from the said chute may be directed into the body of a car or other receptacle provided for the reception of the material.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure, by Let ters Patent, is

In a loading apparatus a track, a member mounted for movement along the track, said member having a hinged section forming a closure, gudgeons projecting beyond the ends of the member, and lifting levers fulcrumed at the side of the track and adapted to engage the gudgeons to lift the member with relation to the track.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedv my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MADISGN CARAIVAY. lVitnesses ROBERT SPRINGS,

A. F. DwoRAK. 

